The Clash are to release two new compilations in September – including a box set designed by bassist Paul Simonon to replicate an 80s boombox. Sound System will contain remasters of the band's first ...

The name is the intention and the intention is in the name. When they first formed, the group toyed with calling themselves the Weak Heartdrops, the Psychotic Negatives or the Outsiders. After seeing ...

The year is 1977 and The Clash have released their self-titled debut album. It's an album that not only introduces them as one of the founding fathers of punk music but also established singer Joe ...

The Clash released London Calling in December 1979. The double album pushed the envelope for what a punk band could be. There was straight-ahead punk rock, but the band’s evolution was evident in the ...

Let’s just deal with the obviously strange question first and get it outta the way: Is it odd that a new retrospective from The Clash, The Clash Hits Back, attempts to mimic a show they played in July ...

Released in May 1982 as the final album from The Clash line-up of of Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon, ‘Combat Rock’ was the punk icon’s highest-selling and highest-charting ...

The Clash are to release a new box set featuring remastered versions of their first five albums, The Clash (1977), Give ‘Em Enough Rope (1978), London Calling (1979), Sandinista! (1980) and Combat ...

Forty years ago, The Clash's iconic album London Calling and its equally famous record cover featuring Pennie Smith's image of the demise of a bass guitar, appeared in record stores across the UK.

He previously played with the likes of Black Sabbath and Generation X and was part of one of the most successful punk rock bands of the decade. TERRY Chimes is best known as the drummer for the punk ...

The three surviving members of the Clash tell Andrew Perry why they reunited after 30 years to create a new box set. As the memory of rock’s golden age in the Sixties and Seventies fades, the music of ...